1. ACI-Ref Virtual Residency 2019
XSEDE Demonstration
Kevin Brandt
June 4, 2019

2. Kevin Brandt, South Dakota State University Manager, University Networking and Research Computing Division of Technology and Security XSEDE Campus Champion - Region 3

3. Agenda New Account Creation Use of the Single Sign-on Portal (Duo)
Sample Job Run (Bridges / Comet)
Slurm Batch

4. XSEDE
Extreme Scale Engineering and Discovery Environment (XSEDE): NSF-funded resource that provides high- performance computing resources to support research across the United States.
Provided through resources from eleven partner sites to create a single virtual computational resource to advance scientific discovery.

5. XSEDE User Account Provisioning
XSEDE Resource Eligibility?
Nearly all US – based university and non-profit researchers can get allocations on XSEDE systems.
User Account Connections

6. XSEDE Single Sign-on
Some XSEDE systems require separate login credentials.
An alternative to the multiple logins - XSEDE now has a Single Sign-on portal to log into all resources with the use of multiple-factor authorization.
To use this function,
Setup user account to use Multi-Factor Authorization (MFA) using Duo - via our user profile).
Duo Application: Android or iOS-based device to host the Duo application.

7. XSEDE JOB SUBMISSION Sample Job Run (Bridges/Comet) Bridges (OnDemand)
Slurm Batch: MPI

8. Thanks! Questions?